Word: deale
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When the deal to sell part of GM's Opel to parts supplier Magna began to lose momentum, Henderson failed to gauge the depth of the board's sentiment that GM keep Opel as a strategic asset and he remained opposed to doing so up until the very end. That left him crossways not only with Whitacre but also with the German government - an embarrassing place...
...just last weekend, a deal to sell Saab to Swedish investors fell apart, leaving GM once again with a distressed property and no obvious way of disposing...
...It’s interesting that something that seems so benign to one side ends up being such a big deal to the other,” said Freeha Riaz, who attended the event, part of the “Islam in the West” lecture series sponsored by The Harvard Center for European Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Islamic Legal Studies Program, and the Humanities Center...
Because we’ve always had to live with our own ideals in mind, consciously or not, we’ve learned to deal with the disappointment of realistic forms. We’ve become hardened to it. Clearly, a student won’t drop a class because the professor’s beard isn’t long enough. Yet I can’t ignore that twinge of satisfaction I feel when a professor’s style or mannerisms slide right into place in my mind. Maybe someday, “aesthetics?...
...period, our troop levels in Afghanistan remained a fraction of what they were in Iraq. When I took office, we had just over 32,000 Americans serving in Afghanistan, compared to 160,000 in Iraq at the peak of the war. Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the re-emergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive. That's why, shortly after taking office, I approved a long-standing request for more troops. After consultations with our allies, I then announced a strategy recognizing the fundamental connection between our war effort in Afghanistan...